The Civic Education Crisis

Jeffrey Sikkenga is the Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center and a professor of political science at Ashland University. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author or coauthor of three books: The Supreme Court: Core Decisions (2020), History of American Political Thought (2019), and The Free Person and the Free Economy (2002). He lives in Ashland, OH. David Davenport is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as well as a Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center. He is the former president of Pepperdine University (1985-2000), where he also served as a professor of law and public policy. David is the coauthor with Gordon Lloyd of three books: How Public Policy Became War (2019), Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive? (2017), and The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry (2013). He lives in Coronado, CO.